“400 VILLAGERS. UP TO 1,250 ASYLUM SEEKERS.” Labour Faces FURY Over Piddington Plan as Locals Warn the Proposed Site Could Completely Overwhelm Their Tiny Community
Labour’s borders minister today doubled down on Andy Burnham‘s insistence that wealthier areas must ‘play their part’ in housing migrants. Anna Turley defended plans for 1,200 migrants to be housed near an Oxfordshire village with a population of just 400. She said there needed to be a ‘fair and equitable system’ for distributing asylum seekers across the country….
